Date:         Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:30:55 -0400
Reply-To:     B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
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From:         B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fuel Price Gouging - Again - It jumped nearly $1 locally
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Here we go with the price of gas in Europe again. I pay $1,500 a month in
health insurance. I'd gladly trade that for $8/gallon gas.

Let's compare apples to apples here.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jeffrey Olson
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:30 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Fuel Price Gouging - Again - It jumped nearly $1 locally

That's $8.00 a gallon.  Gulp...

Jim Arnott wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Please remember that this is a world-wide mailing list. Your paltry
> $4.00/gal. is nothing compared to what our European listmembers are
> paying. <http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/>
>
> The US of A still has relatively cheap fuel. $4.00/gal is $1.06/
> liter.  Euro is about $1.42 currently. Pound sterling is pegged at 1.79.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:24 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
>
>> Today, Saturday - Birmingham, AL - down US 280 going southeast from
>> Interstate 459 - in the area of Inverness, Raceway stations were
>> $3.99.9/gal while all others along that stretch were $4.19.9/gal. Some
>> stations did not have regular unleaded. Others had ONLY the 87 octane
>> unleaded with 10% ethenol.
>
>